Witness, The Amish And The Dominant Culture

When two worlds collide, from two different cultures, where norms, beliefs, and ways of life are blended into a mixer. In the movie, Witness, the Amish and the dominant culture, make an impact. When their two worlds impact, there are negative and positive reactions. As the movie portrays to its audience, three important aspects are taken from the film. This movie shows the reaction of the Amish to the Dominant culture and the other way around, and lastly, the connections/limitations both these cultures have when together.
The Amish in this film, are living in a world inside the dominant people’s country (the English). The Amish’s reaction to the English shows a great difference in each group's culture. Bringing the audience of the film to …show more content…
This was the third importance noticed throughout the movie. These connections and limitations, occurred through each of their languages, love, and experiences. Since the Amish speak German and English, and the Dominant culture can only speak English, they can’t always understand each other. For an example, John, he couldn’t understand the Amish boy sometimes when he was asking questions about who the murderer was. Later on when John is living under the household of the Amish, he fell in love with the Amish lady, Rachel. They knew that either they both had to leave or John had to stay if they were to love each other. John was destined to leave though, this is why he couldn’t love Rachel. The dominant culture and the Amish couldn’t co-exist as lovers. Jumping to another scene with the Amish boy, he had an experience of a man getting killed. When Eli Lapp was telling the boy that guns are bad and he should peaceful, the boy argued and said that it is ok to kill the “bad man”. He related his experience, of the murder, the boy witnessed to his point. This was a connection drawn from the dominant culture. In conclusion these were the connections and limitations amended by these two different